Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1953 — Page 1

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Big Three's Heads Pledge No Aggression Express Hope Iron Curtain Countries May Gain Freedom v ■I. ' 1 TLCUeL’S TOWN,-Bermuda UP 7~ '-The Western "Big Three”, ended their Bermuda conference to.day with a pledge never to use j-their growing might for aggression but with the fervent hope that Germany may be reunited and the nations behind the Iron Curtain may be freed. Presiden Eisenhower, prime minister Winston Churchil land French premier Joseph Laniel said in a final communique, that a fpurpower meeting with So\iet Russia on Germany could, be a start ■lnjhat direction and added: "Our-hope is that in due eotirse peaceful means will be found to enable th(| countries of Eastern Europe again to play their part as free nations in a free Europe." The Western Allies, they said, “can not -accept as justified or permanent the present division of Europe." \ / As a first step in a new campaign, the United States, Britain and France delivered joint notes in Moscow today accepting a So- ■ viet proposal for a Big Four meeting of foreign ministers in Berlin and suggesting Jan. 4 as the daiel A highly authoritative American source saiji the Allied notes left "very few pretexts for evasion of the meeting by the Soviet Union.” This referred to Russia's long refusal, before its last proposal, to agree Ito fa foreign ministers meeting. The samje source said that outside of th? decision to send the note, and for President Eisenhowerer to make his speech before the United Nations assembly this after-' noon on the perils of, atomic warfare, the Illg Three reached “no concrete decisions” in their Bermuda talks. t t i The final communique said that the North Atlantic pact remains the basis of western defense against Qommunist encroachment and that iif the danger of Red aggression jhas been lessened, itH is only because of growing Allied strength’. i Informants said Churchill expressed ths hope, during the talks. ithat- "some revamped version of tire European army proposal should be considered” because it is unlikely France ever will ratify the proposed European defense community pact." ! x ' But Mr. Eisenhower and secretary of st ite John Foster- Dulles felt that t would be dangerous to' tty to >ut over any substitute for the European defense community pact, informants said. Lights burned past midnight in the swank Mid-Ocean club, the Conference heidquarters, as President Eisenhowe •, Chutchill and French i foreign mi lister Bidaiilt—substituting for the ailing Laniel—held their final meeting, •[ v If -—- Music Festival To Be Given Thursday Annual Festival By Rural Schools | •' w■' - - / The annual Adams county music festival is scheduled for Pleasant Mills gymnasium Thursday night at ’:3*> o’clock, it was announced by those in charge. Tick ets for the festival will he sold at the doors of the gymnasium prior _ to the opening of the musical presentation. »'• The program formerly was Held I in the sp-ing but this year With the earlie- date, Christmas music will* he featured. Prof. George. Krueger, vocal division chairman of the Indiana University school of music, will direct the coitnty t choir whiih will be composed of about 200 school students. ■- ,< by Prof. Charles Henzie. Butler Universitj. The band will rehearse just one tjime prior to the presentation and that is scheduled for Wednesday at Pleasant Mills. The chorus al|o will hold a tribal Session Thutfsday morning at Pleasant Mills. Those in charge of arrangements include Don Gerig, Hartford high school-; Robert Ray, Adams Central; Blythe Nerwilltger, Monmouth; Rose Mary \Leeper, Pleas ant iJ. P. (Amstutz, Jefferson: Dorothy Owens and Peter Figert, Geneva. \ Jl :l

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; Community Fund Drive Is Over Top Community Fund Is Oversubscribed In Report Made Today This year’s Decatur Community Fund drive again exceeded its budget goals xitha total of £10,905.93 in cash and payroll deduction pledges reported to date, according to an announcement made this morning by Mrs. Dan Typdall, drive chairman. This total is £677,93. or about 6.6 percent above the budget which had been set at £10,228 for the eight participating service agencies, "p While there still a few who have been contacted and have promised to make a contribution, end follow’-up calls will still be made, the drive itself has been completed somewhat earlier this year than for the .past several campaigns. Mrs. Tyndall expressed her personal thanks as well as those of the community to the many contributors w’ho have Amade this year’s drive a success. She espec ially thanked the riiany workers, area solicitors, and division chairmen, who had given of their time and effort to complete the drive. “We are very pleased that ou r experiment of using women in our drive this year has proven so successful”, commented Carl Genber, Ftinjd president “and we must almost concede that they can do a bettier job than -the men”. A tabulated summary compiled Iby Earl Caston, Fund executive secretary, shows the following totals by divisions: Retail businesses _...£ 3090.50 Industry (employers) . ... 2830.00 Industrial employes (cash & payroll pledges) .... 3395.88 ; Government employes .. . 727.35 Women’s organizations .... 279.30 I Clubs & lodges 100.00. Contributions by individ- j i \ j uAls (solicited by mail & volunteer) „■ 3P4.‘-0 DocjtorS & inisters 179.50 £10,905.93 Nearly every home in Decatur benefits directly from one or the other of the eight Red Feather agencies which will share in t‘e Community Fund. Over two-thirds of the money is used here to provide play-ground equipment for parks, to maintain the “Den”, papular teenage canteen, to finance Boy rfnd Girl Scout activities, and to furnish local emergency aid to transients or local unfortunates The balance, is used on a state and national' level to assist ir cancer research and early detec- ! Don. to help with a badly needed mental health program, to provide money for- the united defense fund (primarily U.S.O. and other services to armed forces) and to help the Salvation Army’s work among > the otherwise almost forgotten men and women. L Good Fellows Club ■ Previous total . £200.00 • Ladies of Columbial 5.00 ■- ■ T Total £205.00 t

Civil Air Patrol May Be Organized Plan Is Submitted To Decatur C. C. ■ • V ■ / Favorable reaction by- the Decatur Chamber of Comiqefre at a board of meeting last night to a proposal that a civil air patrol unit be started here, made it appear likely that six boys who now hitch hike to *he Bluffton GAP unit,' once a week, and a reported 30 boys, interested in the GAP, will have a local unit in the near future. ’ At the request of local flight and ground instructor Robert Railing, 803 Dierkes, two CAP officers gave the OC a brief outline of what the U. S. air force auxiliary, which is what the GAP is, does and hopes to accomplish w ith young boys. ('apt. James Hammer, CAP Chaplain, and Lt. Col. Elliott KayeSmith, told CC president Ralph Habegger and the board that “the CAP builds character in young boys and helps them —to spend useful hours Which otherwise would hang heavy, idle titne that leads to juvenile delinuency.” The group was told the CAP originally was used, when it was formed in 1941, to patrol the Atlantic and Gulf coastlines, but has since expanded to whefe it now has 7,500 airplanes and 16,00 C pilots who. stand ready to give service in time of emergency. The directors were told of the extensive mobile and\* fixed communication units supported by the GAP which .take over in times when communications regularly serving a communit#, but hit by , disastef, goes down, rendering a community isolated. The officers cited the recent Flint, Mich., tornado which left scores of people homeless and without radio contact;. The governor of Michigan, said Lt. Col. j<aye-Smith, thought so much ofrtne job done by the CAP that he cited them specially. “Aviation education, possible coordinated -programs with high schools. Cadet training programs, Character building, military, disci i pline,” were' stated as a Handful of the projects GAP carries on. ; ■ In the event the CC takes up the proposal; said the officers, an “advisory group” would be formed to see to it that training and leadership were maintained in high standards. These men, they said, could\ come from any walk of life. They pointed oiit that no funds would he asked to finance the whole program here; the group, however, would be asked to provide a meeting and drilling place. The officer--said the boy* Who join the CAR here would be expected to carry most of the load themselves, uniiforms, so they would feel that things w-ere not "just being given to them.’ ’ ■’An airport,’’ they 'declared, “is not necessary, and in many instances the GAP unlf has caused an airport to he added to cities, raither than the reverse.” IM. J. Pryor, member of the CC board, said he thought the plan was “worth-while . . . even if it keeps a few boys Off he street” His opinion was concurred in by others present and the meeting closed with Hahegger promising to have the proposal seriously con- ' sidered.

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Eisenhower Appears At U. N. Meeting To Warn Os Atomic Arms Peril

UN Plan For Peace Parley Is Rejected Dean Threatens To End Negotiations For Korean Parley PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP—The United Nations submitted its final proposal today for calling the Korean peace conference and both the Communists and South rejected it. Allied envoy Arthur H. bean threatened to break off negotiations unless they decide to accept the plan in a reasonable time. The Republic of Korea staged a one-day walkout against the Allied plan, which the Communists "categorically rejected." The opposition to the Allied plan, coming from both sides of this Iron Curtain, threatened to end attempts to arrange the peace parley for unifeation of Korea. South Korea’s delegate to ther arrangement Oho Chunk’ Hwan, said his government objected to the plftn because it calls for neutral nations to attend tlw parley as non-voting observers, w The Allied plan also calls for Russia to attend with full voting nqw’drd but does not specifically list the Soviet as either a neutral or belligerent in the Korean con. ference. ‘ South Korea objects to Russian attendance and some neutral na-, tlons which it considers | pro-Com rnunist. , " >,i “We demand that the Soviet Union be branded as belligerents,”. Clio said, “and we will not accept their begin called a neutral. The Soviet Union is the worst enemy ; of the Republic of Korea.” But Cho said he wiU return to the . Panmunjom arrangement talks Wednesday. The Communists spurned Dean’s offer because It would compel Russia to vote with North Korea and Red China and assume full responsibility for living up to agreements made at the parley on Korea’s fu« ture. “This is our final offer," Dean said as he submitted theproposal to Ki Sok Bok, his Communist counterpart, at a meeting which the South Korean delegate boy cot-; ted because the pfan was not hel«! (Turn Te Pau* Klabo 11 Subpenaed For Greenlease Inquiry Federal Grand Jury Calls 11 Witnesses ST. LOUIS. UP ( — The federal' grand jury at Kansdk City. Mo..‘ today subpenaed 11 St. Louts witnesses to testify Monday in its inquiry into the missing $303,000 Bobby Greenlease ransom. i The witnesses included four po licemen and a clerk who were in: the Newstead police station the night of Oct. 6 when the kidnap-, slayers, Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Heady, were arrested. A source here said resigned police Lt. Louis Shoulders, who captured Hall and Mrs. Heady, “definitely was not subpenaed." Shoulders resigned in anger aft-: er he was questioned by a police inquiry board looking into the appearance of more than half oi the $600,000 ransom. The four policemen subpenaed were Cpl. Raymond Cpl. Alex McGee, patrolman Thomas Crowe and patrolman Carl Schottler. Names of the other witnesses were' not learned, t The four, officers have told the police inquiry board they did not see the two suitcases in which Hall claimed nearly all of the ran« som was carried at the time the kidnaper was brought to the ata-; tion, | Shoulders asked for police protection last -Sunday because of Twra To Page Eight* : ■ -a-

Mother Hoping To See Prisoner Son Minnesota Mother Leaves For Tokyo WASHINGTON, JJP —The Minjiesota mother of a GI who chose Communism plans to leave sor 1 /Tokyo tonight, “hoping and praying” she will get permission to go Korea and be able to change her son's mind. ! 4 The state department Monday i approved Mrs. Portia N. Howe’s passport to Japan. Whether she .gets any farther will be up to the k defense department. Mrs. Howe’s congressman, Rep. i August H. Andresen. R-Minn., has agreed to keep in contact with the Pentagon and “try to yvork out the problem.” ,\ Andresen said that while the I present policy of the military is • not to grant such requests, he will f try to get them to “make an ex--1 ception" for Mrs. Howe. The defense department has ' hfeld that it is neither “practicable “ nor advisable” to permit relatives I to visit U. S. prisoners who refuse C to come home. : Mrs. Howe's son, Pfc. Richard ’ F. Tenneson. a child by *a for--1 tner marriage, is one of the 22 Americans captured by the Reds who have refused repatriation. Mrs. Howe thinks her son is a victim of brainwashing. “That’s the only possible explanation I can think of" she said, i “I can’t believe my son is a true 'I convert to Communism. “It’s rny son’s life that is at stake.\ I will wait in Japan and i hope and pray that I will be -cleared the rest of the w-ay. ’ I know I could break the spell of i the hypnosis he is' now suffering . from if I could 'only see and talk to him." \ | j Mrs. said her husband Eban Howe, who operates an 80acre poultry processing farm, is “back of this 100 percent.” She’ said her other children—a 16-year-old son and 10-year-dld twins also think she should go to Korea. Mrs. Howe .said she is carrying iTurs To Pace Kl«ht) Schmitt Plant Is Robbed Last Night More Than S3OO Is Taken Monday Night A large pffice safe at the H. P. Schmitt Packing Co., about two miles north of Decatur on U. S. 27, I was cut into sometime last night with an acetylyne torch, a cash register looted, total theft estimated at between S3OO and S4OO by ; Schmitt. Sheriff Bob Shraluka, investigating with state trooper Walter Schindler, said the plant was brokJ en into between 10 v p.m. yesterday ; and 6:30 o'clock this morning. The , theft was discovered by an eraI ploye, Aaron Suddith, when he opened the plant this morning. Sheriff Shraluka, said a windowpane was broken In the overhead door at the west side of the building and b latch turned to permit entry. Once inside, the office was entered and a cash register emptied of about S3O in change, said the officer. After emptying the register, the safe was worked on with a cutting torch and a large hole was sliced , in the front plate and included the entire combination. Also, part of the inside of the safe was cut. Shraluka said about $250 in 5s and i 16s was removed,- but Schmitt revised that figure late this morning. No lead as to the identification of the thief or thieves was indicated by the sheriff. Schmitt said the greater part of receipts from Monday had been removed when the safe was forcibly , opened. While papers in the safe appeared to have been inspected, said Schmitt, no meat in the plant was touched. The plant employs 10 people and has been operating for two years. ; Schmitt said this is the first time his place has been burglarised. e- K ■

Engravers Vote On Proposal To Settle Strike 1 ’ \ .L■. > ■ ’ Negotiators Agree On Plan; Strikers To Act On Proposal * ■ a , BULLETIN NEW YORK, (UP)—Photoengravesr* Union President Denis M. Burke announced today that negotiators had agreed on a plan to end the 11-day-old New York newspaper strike which he will take to the union membership for action. 4 NEW YORK UP — Striking photo-engravers were called into a general membership meeting today as federal mediators brought to union and management negotiators a formula which they hoped might end the New York Csty newspaper strike. . Denis M. Burke, president of Local No. 1 of the AFL International Photo-Engravers Union, called the 400 striking engravers into a meeting at 1 p.m. Under union rules, the general member.ship must ratify any strike settlement agreement The meeting waft announced shortly after chief federal mediator Walter A. Maggiolo reported that the three' * man mediation panel was presenting to publishers and union representatives a plan which he indicated might bring labor peace to the industry for at least a year. “We hope our proposal will solve all problems," Magglio said shortly before the mediators began separate caucus meetings with representatives of both sides. The strike was in its 11th day. The picket lines of the 400 engravers—who make the engravings that reproduce pictures in newspapers^—have idled some 20,000 other employes whose weekly payroll is two- million dollars. The Newspaper Guild of NewYork, whose members include editorial employes, meanwhile announced it is preparing to publish "in a matter of days," a daily newspaper to help fill the public need for news and advertising. Guild members had refused to cross picket lines. 1 Sister M. Bernarda Dies In New York Taught In School Here Five Years Word of the death of Slater M. Bernarda, CJB.A., a former teacher in the Decatur Catholic schools, was received here by the Sisters of St. Agnes. Sister Bernarda’s death occurred Sunday in St. Frances hospital. New York City. A teacher in the Holy Family school in Bronx, N.Y., Sister Bernarda taught the eighth grade in the local school until IH7. She was a member of the Catholic school staff for five years, prior to her assignment in the east. She is survived by her mother, four sisters and one brother. The requiem high mass will be celebrated Wednesday morning in Holy Family church, the Bronx. Burial will be in St Joseph’s cemetery, Ytonkers, N.Y. \ Local Lady's Brother Dies Last Evening Mrs. H. E. Butler, Decatur, received word last evening that her brother, D. F. Fisher, of Eaton, died in a Muncie hospital. He was 92 year* old. Funeral services will be held at hi* home Wednesday. Besides his lister, he t* survived by two daughter*.

Communist Party Leader Is On Trial Contempt Charged For Jumping Bail NEW UP — Communist party leader Robert G. Thompson goes on trial for criminal contempt of court today for jumping bail while under a three-year prison sentence for conspiracy. Thompson, one of the 11 top U.S. Communist leaders convicted in 1949 of violating the Smith Act, was to be tried before U. S. Judge Gregory Noonan without a jury. If convicted he can be sentenced at the discretion of the judge, with no maximuni penalty provided by law. The 38-year-old former NeuYork state Communist party chairman has been confined in city prison recovering from a fractured skull he received when a Yugoslav seaman attacked him Oct. 24 at the federal house of detention. The seaman beat him with a lead pipe as they stood in line awaiting lunch. Thompson w-as captured last Aug. 27 with another fugitive Communist in a California mountain hideaway where he had fled after failing to surrender to federal authorities in 1951 to begin serving his sentence. Thompson was among four of • the 11 Communist leaders who tailed to surrender after they lost I their appeals from the sentences - imposed by Judge Harold Medipa after their long trial on charges of Conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government. One of the other fugitives. Gus Hall, was captured on the TexasMexico border several months after he disappeared and received an additional three-year sentence for contempt. The other two fugitives are still at large. $200,000 In Damages Asked In Suit Here Victim Os Explosion Files Damage Suit In a complaint filed today in the Adams circuit court, James B. Kitchen, Jr., World War II veteran of this city, names Cities Service Company, (Indiana) Blue Flame Bluffton, Paul Strickler. Kathryn Strickler, (doing business as Adams County Trailer Sales, Decatur) and Kenneth Watkins, an employe of the .above, from whom he seeks damages of $200,000. for injuries received in a butane gas explosion July 7, 1952. The suit was filed by Ed -ABosse, attorney for the plaintiff and as far as is known the amount. of damages sought is the highest ever filed in the local court. The complaint charges “carelessness, negligence and unlawful acts of the defendants" in attaching U bottle of butane liquid petroleum gas in a standard for use by the plaintiff without notifying the palintiff or anyone of his family that the tank had been refilled, ait his home? 1216 Jackson street. \ z ■- Kitchen was severely burned in an explosion as he struck a match to light the gas heater in the basement of his home,, the complaint alleges. The complaint alleges that Kitchen’s injuries are permanent. IHe has been a patient at the Fort Wayne Veterans hospital since about July 16, 1962. The plaintiff also alleges that the flames which enveloped him aft a result of the explosion inflicted third degree burns over 70 percent of his body. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with rain beginning tonight and continuing Wednesday. Warmer tonight, turning colder lat* Wednesday. Low tonight 4045 north, 45-50 south; high Wednesday • 43-49 north, 49-55 south.

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Ike Returns From Bermuda To Address UN Returns From Big I' Three Meeting To Address Assembly UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. UPPresident Eisenhower flew over 770 miles of the Atlantic Ocean from Bermuda today to warn the world, from the assembly hall of the United Nations assembly, of the perils of atomic warfare. The President arrived at the Bermuda airport in an open car with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to find a crowd of 4.000 persons Waiting to bid him farewell after conclusion of the • Three conference. The President is .due at Guardia Marine Airport in New York shortly before 3 p. m. EST. and is scheduled to start hist speech at 4:02 p. m. American officials described tho President’s speech as “not sensational but solid.’’ -- However, the President regarded it as so important that he worked on it until the last mo-« ment. He had not completed the • final text when he left Bermuda, ' b|U worked on it in the plane as 1 it, roared over the saa. * Officials denied reports that 1 there had been any arguments bes tween th* President and Churchill over the speech. These reports were that Churchill did not like the -Hca of the speech anyway, and wanted changes made in it when the President showed it to him. Delegates of all 60 nations of the general assembly were called to the full sessjon to hear Mr, Eisenhower. Among them were Russian delegate Andrei Y; Vishinsky, who only last week heard the general assembly refute his plaims of "•lies, fraud, slander and libel” and condemn Coipmunism for atrocities committed by North Korea and Red China against U. N. forces and the civilian population in Korea. r' •It was against this backdrop of charagae and counter-charge that Mr. Eisenhower accepted U. N. secretary-general Dag Hammarskold’s invitation to speak his thoughts on the terrible uses of atomic and thermonuclear energy. Mr. Eisenhower is expected to begin his speech at 4:02 p. m. EST before radio microphones and television cameras after a brief introduction by Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, president of the assembly. The President's speech on “The Perils that Confront the World in this Atomic Age" was not expected to be available until shortly before he begins the address. Diplomats believed, however, that Mr. Eisenhower would appeal to Russia to join the western powers in a program for controlling nuclear energy and prohibiting atomic; hydrogen and other weapons of mass destruction. Intimates knew that Mr. Eisenhower’s worry has been the inability to get across to the American people the danger to the United States, and the world, which has resulted from development of the hydrogen bomb. His speech was exnected to he ‘Tero Te Pace rive)

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